Anthony Burgess Quotes

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Hospitals are about healing.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

There are no incurable ills.

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.